Authority Cited: Savary; Dictionnaire de Comm.
Author name and dates: Jacques Savary des Bruslons (1657-1716) & Louis- Philemon Savary (1654-1727)
BKG Bio-tweet: Sons of Jacques Savary (authority on merchant trading): Jacques: Customs House inspector; L-P: curate and trade agent
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: 9 Savary cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1, none in Dict. vol. 2. No additions of Savary cites were identified in the 1773 Dict. All Savary quotations are used as a definition (sense) of the headword. All Savary cites are for headwords under A or B and several also list Trevoux or Chambers as an additional source. Citations of Trevous and of Chambers continue through both Dict. volumes. The entry for acacia specifies the French text below as the Savary source. The English translation of Savary by Postlethwayt, also listed below, is a possible source, but the entries are verbose, and it would have been as easy for SJ to extract from the French. The Sale Catalogue of Samuel Johnson's Library, A Facsimile Edition, 1975, Fleeman, lists item 354 Postlethwayt's dictionary, 2v. 1751, and item 645 . . . some numbers of Postlethwayt's dictionary, &c.]
- Dictionnaire Universel de Commerce, d'Histoire Naturelle & des Arts & Métiers, Tome Premier, A-C (1723, 1730, 1750 ed.), A Paris: Chez la Veuve Estienne, rue saint Jacques, a la Vertu; acacia; alabaster; aloes; amethyst; ammoniac; anchovy; bezoar; bilander [BKG Note: there is no bilander headword in the English translation]; bitumen
- The universal dictionary of trade and commerce, translated from the French of the celebrated Monsieur Savary, Inspector-General of the manufactures for the King, at the Custom-house of Paris: with large additions and improvements, incorporated throughout the Whole work; Which more particularly accommodate the same to the trade and navigation Of these kingdoms, and the laws, customs, and usages, to which all traders are subject. By Malachy Postlethwayt, Esq; 1751, London: printed for John and Paul Knapton, in Ludgate-Street [BKG Note: vol. 2, published in 1755, begins with the letter L. An electronic copy of the 1751 vol. 1 was not located, so vol. 1 of the 1757 2nd edition was examined.]
- Savary (no work cited)